Trailer home. Photo: Getty Images

A Kentucky man named Roger Pennington says he bought a small building in the woods from someone online last year. He was slowly moving into his desolate slice of paradise, hoping to one day turn it into a legit cabin. But earlier this month when he drove up to his property, he saw nothing. His house was gone. David Copperfield-ed.

“There’s tire tracks here, and they went out by the telephone pole over there,” said Pennington.

They left behind a box blade knife.

“I’m just following all the leads that I can in each direction,” said Pennington.

Someone was brazen enough to get a large truck strong enough to pull a small home, drive it onto Pennington’s property, hook it up, and take it without a trace? We say the first red flag was when Pennington said he bought it from “someone online.”

Pennington had over $1,500 worth of ‘stuff’ inside the building. He’s still not sure if his property was downright stolen, or if it was sold to him illegally and the original owners came to repossess it.

We could make a few Kentucky jokes here, but this could happen anywhere, right? Right.

Josh Helmuth is a sports reporter in St. Louis who contributes to Mandatory.